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Date of source: 29 May 2019
The meeting was attended by members of the board of the Secretary General for the Holy Synod: Dāniyyāl, bishop of Ma’ādi, bishop Ghubriyyāl bishop of Banī Suwayf, bishopYūliyyūs, general bishop of the churches of old Egypt, and bishop Jibrā’īl bishop of Austria.
Father Būlus Ḥalīm, the official...
Reviewed by Adam Grace
Translator Adam Grace
Date of source: 2 Jun 2019
He said in a first interview with international press since his release. “There isn’t a moment in the day that I don’t think about the surveillance.”
After carrying out his five year sentence for participating in a protest against a law curbing the right of protest in 2013, ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ now must...
Reviewed by Adam Grace
Translator Adam Grace
Date of source: 5 Jul 2019
Nabīl Bufūn, the president of The Independent High Authority for Elections, said in a press conference that, “the [High Authority’s] most important challenge is still the supervision of the election campaigns.” The official spokesman in the name of the Authority, Ḥasnāʾ bin Sulaymān, confirmed that...
Reviewed by Adam Grace
Translator Adam Grace
Date of source: 10 Apr 2019
“In its first legislative term following the effective date of this Constitution, the House of Representatives shall issue a law to regulate constructing and renovating churches, in a manner that guarantees the freedom to practice religious rituals for Christians.”
This law was aimed at...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 21 Apr 2019
Burhān added that the Military Council has made contacts with a number of sisterly and friendly countries --including Egypt, Russia and the United States—all of which understood the current situation in Sudan, and understood also that what happened there was a popular revolution rather than a...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 22 Apr 2019
He also said that there is a total of 250 archaeological missions in Egypt, including missions from 25 countries around the world.
“There are 80 Egyptian archaeological missions, representing one third of the number of the missions working in Egypt. They are divided into 40 missions from the...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 22 Apr 2019
Hānī and Christine Wajīh, a brother and a sister in their twenties, have struggled to participate in the referendum today.
Christine stressed the importance of voting for extending the presidential term agreed in the constitutional amendments.
“We have never dallied in participating in anything...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 22 Apr 2019
Presidential Spokesman Bassām Rādī said that Mahdī congratulated the Egyptian people during the call on the successful implementation of the Referendum on the Constitutional Amendments, praising the positive developments that have taken place in Egypt on all levels over the past years.
For his...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 8 Apr 2019
According to a source in Saint Mina Monastery, Athanāsiyyūs was delegated to the spiritual service in the USA and caused much trouble with Bishop David of New York. He refused returning to his monastery in Alexandria when he was asked to do so, leading bishopKīrillus to send him a formal letter...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 22 Apr 2019
He added that the heavy turnout of voters indicates the Egyptians’ raised awareness of the importance of participation.
al-Sharīf pointed out that the results are submitted by the subcommittees to the public committees without being announced to be submitted to the Preliminary Court that passes...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 22 Apr 2019
This forum is organized annually by the Ministry of Antiquities since 2016 for showing the results of the various Egyptian and foreign missions’ work. It is attended by leaders from the Antiquities Ministry and heads of the foreign archaeological institutes and missions working in Egypt.
The...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 22 Apr 2019
The JBA President Ḥamdī al-Tabba’a, recalled his association’s efforts and role in consolidating economic, trade and investment relations between both countries through the Jordanian-Egyptian Business Council. He pointed out that the Council worked on overcoming obstacles to increasing the mutual...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 22 Apr 2019
Until now, no group has claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday attacks against churches and luxury hotels that left 290 people killed and over 500 others wounded.
A government spokesman said on Monday that an international network is involved in these horrific bombings.
In addition, a...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 10 Apr 2019
Presidential Spokesman Ambassador Bassām Rāḍī stated that “The meeting focused on issues pertinent to women empowerment, notably in light of the initiative launched by the White House under the title "The Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative.”
The initiative aims at promoting...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 10 Apr 2019
During the sermon, the Pope read parts of Saint John’s bible about the miracle of the man born blind. He said that it proves that Jesus came to illuminate the hearts of the humans, pointing out that he healed the man’s heart before healing his eyes in order to give him a new spiritual vision....
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Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 6 Jul 2019
The paper describes media close to the current regime in Cairo as “Samsung and autocue media”, after a female news presenter, who was announcing the news of the death of Mursī on air, failed to stop herself when reading from the teleprompter word-for-word, saying “Sent from Samsung device”, an...
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Translator Xavier Owen
Date of source: 6 Jul 2019
It follows on from the death of bishop Epīphaniyyūs, who was killed at the end of July last year, after being beaten by monks with a sharp instrument in his monastery in northern Egypt. The authorities said the investigation found that the reason for the killing was due to "ideological and...
Reviewed by Xavier Owen
Translator Xavier Owen
Date of source: 7 Apr 2019
The objective of civil society goes beyond mere political participation. It moves beyond that to be involved in participation in its comprehensive sense at the political, economic, social and cultural levels. Such involvement gives it the opportunity to monitor, govern and correct the course of...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 10 Apr 2019
According to some church sources, the conference will be attended by all the Orthodox families of the world, including the Orthodox Romans, the Syrians and the Latins. The sources added that the Coptic Orthodox Church will be represented by a number of bishops, including Bishop Sirābiyyūn,...
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Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 9 Apr 2019
During the call, ‘Abd al ʿĀṭīemphasized the importance of exploiting the existing events to make as much gains as possible, and the need to seek the help of the neighbors.
Jamāl said that they explicitly talked about the plan aimed at fragmenting and melting the Arab countries, and about a...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 9 Apr 2019
The forum’s mission is to reach one million women in 2022 in India through connecting a million women leaders and entrepreneurs who support gender equality and women’s empowerment for helping one another and providing mutual support.
It’s noteworthy that this forum has been organized...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 9 Apr 2019
The festival will be organized under the auspices of Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Bishop Mātaʾūsʾ of the Syrian Monastery, Bishop Mūsā of Youth, Bishop Rāfāʾīl of Cairo Downtown Churches, Bishop Makārī of Southern Shubrā and Bishop Mārtīrūs of the Churches East of the Railway.
It will also be...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 2 Jun 2019
This situation is similar to the case of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The Brotherhood exploited divisions within Egyptian society to win the elections and take power. Afterwards, people’s awareness led to a political change and rid Egypt of radicalpolitical Islam.
A few days later, Iran started...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 2 Jun 2019
According to The Times, since coming to power in 2013, the regime of current President, al-Sīsī handed preliminary death sentences to more than 2,400 people. The escalation of executions reflect the deterioration of the human rights situation in Egypt, and comes within the framework of al-Sīsī’s...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 2 Jun 2019
For instance, the charge of “anti-Semitism" is used without notice at every occasion. This to the extent that government officials, led by President Emmanuel Macron, have been caught in the trap of confusing anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
The French president proposed a few weeks ago to amend the...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 31 May 2019
Rāniyyā al-Mashāṭ expressed her pleasure over signing the agreement and pointed out the several articles included in the document, such as cooperation in the development of the tourism productin the fields of cultural and coastal tourism, festival tourism, cooking tourism and other tourist patterns...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 31 May 2019
Egypt is treating Syrian refugees with dignity and without restrictions, however, the increasing presence of Syrians has a big impact on the country.
Since 2012, the government has supported Syrian refugees and provided them the services of health, education and higher educationas Egyptian...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 17 Apr 2019
The Center for Research on Anti-Semitism recorded a significant increase in the number of anti-Jewish incidents in Berlin: the number of such incidents reached 1083 in 2018, an increase of 14% compared to 2017. The number of actual anti-semitic attacks has doubled from 18 to 46.
According to the...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 29 May 2019
Every day dozens of poor people wait for charity in front of the building and believers gather around the shrine of “Sulṭān of Karāmāt” asking for miracles and blessings, while the mosque is filled with worshipers.
A banner decorating the mosque says that this sacred place is dedicated to Ḥussayn...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 2 Jun 2019
Israeli security forces are following the economic and security situation in the West Bank, the terms of the Deal of the Century, which will be announced by US President Donald Trump, as well as the growing strength of Ḥizbullāh in Lebanon and Syria.The impact of the aforementioned on Israel is...
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Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 2 May 2019
Rothchild explained that Jews in the US are a diverse and complex community and for this reason there are internal conflicts about their position on the State of Israel.
A large part of American Jewish community, among them the youth, is actually dissatisfied with the charges, corruption and...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 2 May 2019
Nādir Saʿad, the spokesman for the Cabinet, said that the Committee will discuss severalissues of common concern, including mechanisms to increase volume of trade exchange and to facilitate the exchange of goodsbetween the two countries.
During the visit, Madbūlī will meet Lebanese President Michel...
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Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 16 Apr 2019
Nada Samīr, head of the Social Aids Committee at Miṣr Foundation for Health and Sustainable Development, said that the development of the implementation plan for the first phase of the Dignified Life Initiative is under way among the partner NGOs of the initiative under the direct follow-up and...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 15 Apr 2019
The 33-year-old Dāliyyā Ihāb Yūnis is organizing the first Acapella workshop in Egypt. Acapella is a singing technique that relies on human voices instead of instruments to produce music. The workshop will include producing a song to raise awareness about hearing impairments. The performers will...
Reviewed by Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Translator Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ
Date of source: 22 Jul 2019
Session 1 The Disciple and his relationship to God
Read Ephesians 4:1-5 and 25-32.
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep...
Date of source: 1 May 2019
Dr. Māyā Mursī, President of NCW, stressed the main role of Egypt’s “honorable male and female workers” from all sectors of production in building the nation. She also praised their dedication anddetermination to create a better future for themselvesand their children.
Additionally, Dr. Mursī...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 1 May 2019
Rivlin added that although the Jews are not under the risk of a second Holocaust, the new rise of anti-Semitism shouldn’t be ignored and that those “antisemitic forces” shouldn’t be considered as allies. Taking a clear stance against them is necessary otherwise it would be hypocritical to demand...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
Date of source: 2 May 2019
The country with the largest number of serious antisemitic attacks is the US, although attacks against Jews in Western Europe has more than doubled in the last year.
The report points out that anti-Semitism has turned intoan ordinary matter and that “it is no longer just part of the complex...
Reviewed by Giulia Conte
Translator Giulia Conte
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Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.